Skub would like to extend his gratitude to everyone who helped him solve his seating conundrum. Thanks to your help, the dinner party started out without a hitch! Next, Skub needs a little assistance figuring out the menu, so tune in Wednesday for the next Riddle Club Puzzle!
There were 40 responses to last week’s puzzl, 37 of which had the correct seating arrangement. So what are those answers? Let’s figure it out together!
Lord Wumples (A) must be at the head or the foot of the table, so either 1 or 6.
Count of Crumbs (C) must be seated at an even numbered seat and the Lady Vampoozle (E), at a seat number twice his, which means that he must either be in seat 2 or 4 and she seat 4 or 8. Keep in mind that the Countess (B) will be sitting next to her husband.
Meanwhile, Duchess Wellingud (J) must sit at a corner seat and have a seat number higher than her husband (I), which means she must be seated in seat 10, 7 or 5. Also, her best friend, Mistress Bloach (G), will be sitting between the Duke and Duchess, so you can keep these three lumped as one unit while whittling things down.
Now Baron Chuff (D) must be “flanked by ladies,” of which there are 4. Mistress Bloach is wedged between her friends, the Duke and the Duchess, so really there are only 3 possibilities – the Countess, Lady Vampoozle and the Duchess. Going back to the Count, if he must be in 2 or 4, then his wife must be in 1, 3 or 5. With the Lady in 4 or 8, that means it’s impossible for the Baron to be flanked by both of them, which means that he must have the Duchess on one side and either the Countess or the Lady on the other. Which means the string of DJGI is locked down. Since seat 4 must either be the Count or the Lady, J cannot sit at seat 5, which means she’s in seat 10 or 7.
There are two scenarios in which the above criteria still work, but if you look at them in light of the final two clues, which say that Prince Pipsquip (F) can’t sit next to Vampoozle, Rotterdung or the Wellinguds and that Rotterdung (H) must sit as far from Duke Wellingud as possible, only one arrangement holds up:
1-G, 2-I, 3-B, 4-C, 5-F, 6-A, 7-H, 8-E, 9-D, 10-J
To select the prize winners from the 37 valid entries, I used random.org to generate 4 TRUE random numbers and counted down the list accordingly. And so, this month’s winners are:
- Grand Prize: Kendra Nunez
- Runners Up: Amy Sia Watson, Alexis K AufderHeide, Samantha Paul
Congratulations to the lucky winner, and to everyone else, thanks for entering and keep on riddling! Not every Riddle Club puzzle will have prizes, but we’ll definitely be doing prizes again soon.
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Congratulations, everyone! I hope you enjoy your prizes
And thanks to Jake, for giving us the opportunity to have fun and win fabulous goodies.
Darn; I got ‘em right, just wasn’t picked. Oh well, maybe next time. Congrats to you guys who won!
Shucks, I’m like you Maia, I got them all right but I just didn’t get picked. We’ll just have to win it when the prize is a first edition of Volume 4
I gotta say though, I like not having the prize rounds be a race. The number generating thing is a good way to go, that way the only thing that matters is that you got the right answer (And BTW, 37 entries? Wow!)
Congrats to the winners, you should send pictures of yourself enjoying the spoils of victory to Jake!
((Question for you Jake about future riddles: If you win at one round, are you allowed to enter any more? I assume you’d be able to guess the ones that don’t have prizes but are previous winners excluded from future prize-winning rounds?))
@Kristi, yeah, I definitely don’t want to turn it into a race as that wouldn’t be fare to people who only view the site occasionally or show up just for the contest. That said, if it was a race, you would have won as yours was the first correct answer!
re: prize packs, as long as the prices are the same as these, I won’t let the same person win the grand prize multiple times. When the release of volume 4 gets closer, I wan to have some super-special prizes though, like original art from Chris or other one-of-a-kind prizes, and in those cases, I don’t want to exclude previous winners. Sound fair?
I actually managed to come up with the answer after about an hour or so of trying. I was just about to give up for the day when I had the brainstorm of where to place the Duke, Dutchess, and Mistress Bloach and everything fell into place.
I think I’m much better at this type of riddle than word problems (Like the first Skubs riddle). I’ll have to make myself a little cardboard medal to celebrate being the first correct submitter.
And your idea about how to dish out prizes sounds pretty good. I’m intrigued by the idea of winning some of Chris’ artwork, though I think if you offered something like the picture Chris drew of Young Jareth you might start a feeding frenzy XD
Yay! I’m so happy!
Thanks, Jake! And congratulations to everyone else who won.
Shoot, I had it but did not get picked. Oh well, I already have the three Labbys and I imagine the Dark Crystal would be one of the other ones, so I’m not out much. Congrats, winners!
I love logic puzzles, you should do more in the future.
Kelly, I love your icon.
It made me lol.
I thought mystery man needed some emotion.
Congrats to the winners! It’s a relief to know my answers were right even it I wasn’t lucky. Nice riddle, Jake!